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Marc Goldwein on You Don't Have to Yell Podcast Discussing Debt Ceiling
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein recently appeared on the " You Don't Have to...
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Net Interest Payments Topped $475 Billion in FY 2022
Read moreOne of the main reasons to be concerned about our high and rising national debt is the growing size of interest payments needed to service it. In...
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Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023 Introduced in the Senate
Read moreLast week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and a bipartisan group of nine additional senators reintroduced the Prevent...
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White House Should Stop Demagoguing Social Security and Medicare
Read moreWhite House spokesperson Andrew Bates today described commissions to save the Social Security and Medicare programs from insolvency as a “death panel...
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Principles for Social Security Reform
Read moreSocial Security will be insolvent in as little as a decade. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the combined trust funds’ reserves will be...
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The 2022 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts
Read moreIn economic history, 2022 will be remembered for high and rising inflation and rising interest rates in response. While high inflation dominated the...
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Marc Goldwein: Here are realistic goals for Congress to get a grip on national debt
Read moreMarc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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CBO's Budget Options to Improve Trust Fund Solvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its latest Options for Reducing the Deficit reports, outlining 76 policy options across two...
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CBO: Only a Decade Until Social Security Insolvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released detailed Social Security projections finding that the trust funds are headed for insolvency by...
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New Study Finds Student Loan Pause is Regressive
Read moreA recent analysis by Diego Briones, Sarah Turner, and Eileen Powell of the University of Virginia found that the current student loan payment pause...
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President Biden Skips Budget Deadline for Third Year Straight
Read morePress reports indicate that President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget will be submitted this March, well after the statutory deadline of the first...
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Congress Must Responsibly Raise the Debt Limit
Read moreToday, the Treasury Department announced that it has begun engaging in a set of accounting tools known as “extraordinary measures” to avoid breaching...